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40406 to 40496— Continued. 



Several varieties of this species so well known as the 'black currant ' 

 of fruit gardens have been distinguished. The varieties dissection 

 and Jaciniatum are curious and interesting, but no others are worth 

 cultivation as ornamental shrubs." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs 

 Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. J f 05.) 

 40469. " 7350 G. Var. korolkoun." 

 See S. P. I. No. 40468 for description. 



40470. Ribes orientals Desf. Currant. 



" 7365." 



"An unarmed deciduous shrub 5 or 6 feet high; young shoots and leaf- 

 stalks covered with stiff gland-tipped sticky hairs. Leaves of the red- 

 currant size and shape, but shining green and with bristly down on the 

 nerves beneath ; stalk one-half to 1 inch long. Flowers unisexual, the 

 sexes on different plants, and produced on somewhat erect racemes 1 to 

 2 inches long ; they are green suffused with red and covered with viscid 

 hairs; berries red, downy. Native of eastern Europe and western Asia. 

 The R. resinosum of Pursh, until recently regarded as a native of North 

 America, and figured as such in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, pi. 153S, 

 is really this species. It has little garden value, but is distinct in its 

 unisexual flowers, very viscid glands, and erect racemes." (W. J. Bemi. 

 Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. J t 06.) 



40471. Ribes oxyacanthoides L. Gooseberry. 

 " 7480." 



" Is widely spread over North America. It has bristly branches, the 

 leaves are downy, and more or less glandular, the stamens as long as the 

 petals; the ovary, calyx, and berry smooth, the last red-purple." ( W. J. 

 Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. 402.) 

 40472 and 40473. Ribes petraeum Wulf. Red currant. 



40472. " 7430." 



"Another of the red-currant group, widely spread in a state if 

 nature in Europe and North Africa. It has no value as an orna- 

 mental shrub, its flowers being green suffused with purple, somewhat 

 bell shaped, in horizontal or slightly nodding racemes, 3 or 4 inches 

 long. The leaves are more deeply lobed than in the common red 

 currant, the lobes pointed. Fruit roundish, flattened somewhat at 

 the end, red, very acid." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in 

 the British Isles, vol. 2, p. Jf09.) 



40473. " 7430 C. Var. rigens." Red currant. 

 See S. P. I. No. 40472 for description. 



40474. Ribes petraeum X multiplorum. Red currant. 

 " 7545." 



For a description of this species, see S. P. I. No. HH72. 



40475. Ribes tbiste Pallas. 



"7440." This was received as B. propinquum Turcz. 



40476. X Ribes BOBUSTUM .Tancz. Gooseberry. 

 " 7520." 



"A hybrid between R. niveum and R. oxyacanthoides. It is a verj 

 vigorous bush and was received at Kew in 1S90 from the late Mr. Nye- 



